#1Club Path
Which Way Your Club Is Swinging
Left, right, or straight at the target.Think of path as the road the club travels on. Your strike mark gives you immediate feedback about that direction.
Free interactive tool · Ball Flight Lab
Why Your Ball Goes Where It Goes.
Face Sends It. Path Bends It.Drag the sliders and watch the ball flight change in real time. The result tells you exactly what the shot is, and what caused it.
Slice
The face is wide open to your path, so the ball curves hard right. Fix the face first.
Adjust impact
Slice: Face wide open. Curves hard right.
The two things you just moved
Those Two Sliders Aren't A Simplification. They Are The Swing.
Every slice, hook, pull, and push comes from two things: what the clubface was doing and where the club path was travelling. Six words sum it up: face sends it, path bends it.
#2Face Angle
Where The Clubface Is Pointing
Open, closed, or square to the target.Think of the face as the steering wheel. The relationship between face and path determines how the shot curves.
Remember thisFace Sends It.
Path Bends It.
Path Bends It.
Six words that make every ball flight easier to understand.
Club path, visualized
Three Paths. Three Different Shots.
Your club can travel left across the ball, straight toward the target, or right through it. Each pattern leaves a different fingerprint on the ground.
Swinging Left
Out-to-in path. Often paired with a slice when the face is open or a pull when the face matches.
Swinging Straight
Neutral path. Whether the ball flies straight now depends on the clubface.
Swinging Right
In-to-out path. Often paired with a draw or hook when the face is closed to the path.
See it on every swing
See it →Your real divot disappears quickly. Divot Board captures these strike patterns after every swing.
But path doesn't explain everything
The Face Is Why It Curves
The face strongly influences where the ball starts. The difference between face angle and club path determines the direction and severity of the curve.
That is why changing the swing path alone may not remove a slice; the face-to-path relationship still matters.
The starting-direction model
With Irons, Face Angle Has The Larger Influence On Where A Shot Starts
75%Face anglePrimary starting-direction influence
25%Club pathSecondary starting-direction influence
Approximate iron-shot model. Exact contribution varies with club, strike, and delivery.
Your miss, diagnosed
Pick Your Shot. Here's What's Causing It.
Every recurring miss has a pattern. Choose yours to see what is happening, one change to try, and what to look for on the board.
The Slice
The ball starts left, then curves hard right: the most common miss in golf.
What's happening
Open Face
Your face is pointing right of your swing path at impact. The ball curves toward where the face points. The gap between path and face creates the slice.
The fix
Strengthen Your Grip
Rotate both hands clockwise slightly so you see two or three knuckles on your lead hand. This helps close the face without rebuilding the entire swing.
What you'll see on the board
Same Divot, Less Curve
The divot direction may not change much, but as your face closes, the ball should curve less and less to the right.
The only problem
Your Real Divot Disappears In Seconds.
On grass it vanishes. On a conventional mat you get little useful feedback. Divot Board records the strike after every swing so you can use what you just learned.
See how it works →No app. No subscription. Pick it up and swing.Common Questions
The direction of the divot gives you a useful indication of the direction the club was travelling through impact. An out-to-in swing generally leaves a mark pointing left of the target, while an in-to-out swing generally points right. Divot Board preserves that strike pattern after every swing.
Because face angle strongly influences starting direction. A divot pointing left suggests an out-to-in path, but an open face relative to that path can start the ball farther right and make it curve right: the classic slice pattern.
Both curve from right to left for a right-handed golfer. A draw has a smaller face-to-path difference and a controlled curve; a hook has a larger difference and curves much more sharply.